Samet Yalçın, MA
Universitätsassistent in der Abteilung Kunstgeschichte / -theorie, Mitglied des PhD Research Collective
Samet Yalçın (*1987 in Istanbul) is a university assistant and PhD candidate at the University of Arts Linz, Department of Art History and Art Theory, and member of the PhD Research Collective. With a background in philosophy, sociology, literature and anthropology, his research focuses on the ontology of space/place and the topology of in/finitude. In his PhD thesis Encounters at the End of the World: A Topological Nekrikoi Dialogue Between Heidegger, Platonov, and Fedorov he investigates how finitude and infinitude are spatially articulated and how groundlessness is expressed across literature, philosophy and visual arts. By engaging philosophical, cosmological, and artistic perspectives in an experimental dialogue, he seeks to chart a spatial and topological map of in/finitude, from the confines of the grave to the expanse of the cosmos. His broader research interests include different conceptions of the world, place and space, planetary thinking, the philosophy of technology, concepts of temporality, the Russian avant-garde, abstract painting, and affect theory.
Kurzvita
PhD-Student in Art History-Art Theory Department
MA in Social Thought, Bilgi University (Istanbul)
BA in Philosophy and Sociology, Boğaziçi Universitat (Istanbul)
TRANSLATIONS
Books
- Byung Chul Han, Müdigkeitsgesellschaft (German into Turkish, İstanbul: Inka Publication House [2015, re-edition 2023])
- Anne Dufourmantelle, Power of Gentleness: Meditation on the Risk of Living (English into Turkish, İstanbul: Kolektif Publication House, 2023)
Articles
- “World Machines: Combust Engine, Railroad and Computer” by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, from English into Turkish for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine (Issue 58)
- “A Phenomenological Approach to the Notion of Zeitgeist” by Stephen Kern, from English to Turkish, for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine (Issue 58)
- “In What Kind of a World We Are Living” by Jeff Malpas, from English to Turkish for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine (Issue 59)
- “The State of the Art in Recent Debates on Memory and Forgetting” by Andreas Huyssen, from English into Turkish, for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine (Issue 60)
- “Forget Erinnerungskultur or: Identity without Internalization” by Hans-Georg Moeller, from English into Turkish for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine (Issue 60)
- “Poets in Paradise” in Echololias: On the Forgetting of Language by Daniel Heller- Roazen, From English into Turkish, for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine (Issue 61)
- “Verstreute Bemerkungen zur Sprache” by Klaus Voswinckel, from German into Turkish, for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine (Issue 61)
- “Language of Adam” by Abdelfettah Kilito, from English to Turkish, for Sabah Ülkesi Magazine (Issue 61)
EDITORIAL WORKS
- Andrei Platonov, Literature Factory (Istanbul: Kolektif Publishing House 2024)
- Friedrich Nietzsche, On Theognis of Megara (Istanbul: Dergah Publications, 2021)
TEACHING
Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Art History Department, Courses thought together with Prof. Zeynep Sayin.
2019-2020 (Fall/Spring): Nature and Art
2020-2021 (Fall/Spring): Art in the Age of Anthropocene I
2021-2022 (Fall/Spring): Art in the Age of Anthropocene II
2022-2023 (Fall/Spring): Lines and Gestures: A History of Images I
Mimar Sinan University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Photography Department, Courses thought together with Dr. Ezgi Bakcay.
2022-2023 (Fall): Photographing the World: Approaches to World through Different Lenses
